Gonzalo Eduardo de Cordoba

Gonzalo Eduardo de Cordoba (5 July 1580-2 June 1625) was a general of the Spanish Empire and Holy Roman Empire who fought in the Dutch Revolt and the Thirty Years War.

Biography
Gonzalo Eduardo de Cordoba was born in the city of Cordoba in southern Spain in the Habsburg Empire, and first started his military experience in 1597, fighting in the Dutch Revolt against the United Provinces. Cordoba was a descendant of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, the Spanish general who was famed in the Italian Wars. Cordoba gained some experience before the Peace of Utrecht in 1609 ended the war. In 1618, with the start of the Thirty Years War, he became a general in the Habsburg Army.

In 1624 he started his campaigns in putting down the Kingdom of Denmark, and he fought alongside Albrecht von Wallenstein and crushed the Danes at Lutter. However, on 2 June 1625 he was met with disease and died of pneumonia in Dresden, Saxony.